Prof. Samir Baha-Eddine Maliki is a Full Professor in Economics and Business. He joined Tlemcen University in the fall of 2000 as an Assistant Professor of Economics. Maliki completed his Ph.D. at Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines University in France. Maliki’s research interests lie in Applied Economics, Water Management, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, and Economic Development in the MENA region. Currently, Prof Maliki is the Director of the Ph.D. program on Economic Engineering and Enterprise at Tlemcen University and Head of team research at Mecas laboratory. In addition, he is an ERF Research Fellow in Cairo. He is widely published in refereed journals in economics, business, and other management areas.. In addition, he has 20 years of teaching experience with undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate students. He has also held Visiting positions at Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Paris; CSM Monaco and Lublin University of Technology, Poland.With a long experience in research, he has published several papers and studies in international indexed journals, and he is an editorial review board member for some scientific journals.
Entrepreneurship has come to be considered one key to countries’ economic development. This column assesses the connection between entrepreneurship and the economic development of nine economies in the Middle East and North Africa over the period from 2006 to 2018.